Blue mud, or pie with a fork Jeff Zeitlin (30 Jul 2021 23:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Phil Pugliese (30 Jul 2021 23:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Rupert Boleyn (31 Jul 2021 01:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Graham Donald (31 Jul 2021 07:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Phil Pugliese (31 Jul 2021 09:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork David Shaw (31 Jul 2021 09:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Jeff Rowse (02 Aug 2021 11:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Rupert Boleyn (02 Aug 2021 20:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork David Shaw (02 Aug 2021 20:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Bruce Johnson (02 Aug 2021 20:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Andrew Long (31 Jul 2021 10:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Mark Urbin (31 Jul 2021 15:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Michael Houghton (01 Aug 2021 19:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Jeffrey Schwartz (03 Aug 2021 18:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork Richard Aiken (10 Aug 2021 16:27 UTC)

Blue mud, or pie with a fork Jeff Zeitlin 30 Jul 2021 23:22 UTC

It is a common trope in fiction, and in [good] SF particularly (and it's
even considered a good idea in real life, "ugly American" notwithstanding),
that when one is in "somebody else's" milieu, one should do one's best to
conform to the expectations of that milieu, or at least know enough to
avoid giving offense.

DGP's _World Builders' Handbook_ (WBH) provided some rules for generating
customs that PCs could theoretically run afoul of. However, rather than
asking people to pull out their PRNGs and copies of WBH, I'd rather ask
people to think about and list those kinds of 'things' that they've
encountered in real life, and maybe come up with a couple of variations on
them that could make life interesting for PCs.

NOTE: "R-rated" is specifically NOT excluded - I recall some examples in
fiction where starting from the assumption that if you stuck to what mom
taught you was decent/indecent, you couldn't go wrong, went wrong.

(Bonus points to anyone who can name the two references I was thinking of
when I wrote the subject line.)

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